Chairman,
IEEE Egypt Section (2011-2015), Member of the Award and Recognition
Committee (ARC) Region 8 (2012-2015) and Member of the Ethics and Member
Conduct Committee (2015).

Senior
Member of IEEE (86-to date), the Computer Society, the Signal Processing
Society and the Communications Society. Member of the IEEE executive
committee for Egypt responsible for student membership development
(1999-2004).

Member
of the ACM (98-2004).

Member
of the Inter-University Network (IUN), the Open Microsystems Initiative
(OMI), the Technical Council on Software Engineering and IASTED technical
committee on Robotics and Automation (88-94).

Member
of the Arab League Committee for the translation of Computer terms and the
Egyptian Computer Society, SIG on Computer Linguistics and Arabization (89-92).

oInvolved in the establishment
of the joint degrees between Egyptian Universities and leading US and
International Universities to be delivered via different mechanisms utilizing
new communications and networking technology.

oShared in curricula and
course development at several places.

oActively shared in the
process of lab and network renovation at several universities.

oInterested in the
engineering student training issues. Performed detailed study on
problems, issues and recommendations.

oHave particular interest in
new technology tools to serve education:

oStarted a pilot project
with Virginia Tech where I remotely supervised Masters student at VT while
actually being in Cairo.
The project was successful and the student was awarded the degree in September
1998.

oActively participated in
Work Group IV, Administrative Aspects, Euro-Egyptian Symposium on Distance
Education by Satellite, April 1999,

§Enhanced Engineering Education Experience Workshop, 1994.
The workshop was held in cooperation between United
Arab EmiratesUniversity
and Drexel University, USA. The workshop covered the
Drexel and Arizona
experiment in teaching Engineering in a non-traditional fashion and stress on
the hands on activities from the very beginning.

§Microteaching and how to prepare lectures, UAEUniversity,
1992.

§Preparation of University young Assist. Professors, CairoUniversity,
1989.

§Voice and lecturing, University
of California, Davis, 1988. How to use different
frequency bands to avoid fatigue, get attention of your audience and stress
certain ideas.